Assesment Of Green Campuses For Sustaınable Cities And Society With UI Green Metrics: A Case Study Of Duzce University

Abstract

Sustainability is a very important subject for universities.This situation concerning with size of area that they have, number of students, academicians, administrative staff, their excessive consumption of energy and materials. Related to these conditions, Universities have big impacts on enviroment and nature either explicit or implicit. Certain leading universities have performed comprehensive projects to develop sustainability of the campuses. To understand and assess the efficient sustainability of campuses and universities, lots of evaluation tools have been improved. In this research, Green Metric Index has been used which was developed by Indonesia University in 2010. This model is one of the most used in the world and evaluates the sustainability of the campuses.This tool uses six main criteria: Setting and Infrastructure (SI), Energy and Climate Change (EC), Waste (WS), Water (WR), Transportation (TR) and Education (ED). Each of the six main categories is described by several indicators and these define the significant issues of sustainability. In this article with use of observational analyses, Konuralp Campus of Düzce University has been evaluated with using Green Metric Index in terms of Sustainable Campus.In consequence of the research, positive and negative conditions in terms of Green Metrics have been determined and provided suggestions have been developed.